In this 3 minute 44 second video, Pardis Sabeti discusses the future of genomics, i.e. how sequencing will become so cheap that personal genome sequencing will be ubiquitous. She also talks about the impact of sequence information on medical and human variation research as well as the necessary ethical precautions we need to take with [...]
July 1, 2008
Erik Trinkhaus, Tianyuan 1 and Sunghir 1, and the Earliest ‘Evidence’ of Footwear
Erik Trinkhaus published a study, along with Hong Shang, in the July issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science on what they consider the earliest evidence of footwear of modern humans. The paper is titled, “Anatomical evidence for the antiquity of human footwear: Tianyuan and Sunghir.” They compared and contrasted the morphology of a couple [...]
July 1, 2008
Diffusion Spectrum Imaging Used to Map the Structural Core of Human Cerebral Cortex
A new paper in the open access journal PLoS Biology describes a new way to model the human brain using diffusion spectrum imaging. Since we’re in the omics age of science, you shouldn’t be surprised that this map is dubbed the connectome. The semantics of the connectome is similar to genome, proteome, metabalome, transcriptome — [...]
July 1, 2008
Guy Gugliotta’s Review of Modern Human Evolution in the Smithsonian
I caught this Smithsonian review of the evolution of modern humans from Peter Frost’s blog post last night. I got some time to read the piece on the bus this morning, and wanted to briefly share my thoughts of it with you. The piece is written by science writer Guy Gugliotta, he has covered other [...]
